10/26/2026
Karen Jacobs, EdD, OTR, CPE, FAOTA, is featured in a new article from BU's Institute for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and also spotlighted by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy.
Sargent College's Karen Jacobs asks "What needs to change for a person to participate in daily life?" The Boston University clinical professor, who directs the online post-professional OTD, turned that habit into TAPESTRY, a framework of eight principles for bringing AI into health care, education, and the workplace. Its premise is that AI should handle pattern recognition and data analysis so OT practitioners can put their time into judgment, empathy, and the therapeutic relationship.
Now a Google Higher Education AI Fellow, she is carrying that thinking into health professions education. She argues AI literacy belongs in clinical reasoning: catching what an AI-generated summary left out, explaining a tool's role to a client, and recognizing bias in its output.
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